The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 11
Among them came one Prince Fickle by name, who very quickly won the love of fair Helena.
Who acts: name · What happens: come, win, love · To what, where: one Fickle, love, fair Helena
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 2 them | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Fickle | nummod |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fickle | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Fickle | Fickle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 name | case |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 won | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 won | nsubj |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 quickly | advmod |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 won | advmod |
| 13 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 name | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 love | det |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 won | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Helena | case |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Helena | amod |
| 18 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 love | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | one Fickle Prince | among wooers = wooer; by name | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location | ||||
| 2 | win | past | name | the love of fair Helena | quickly property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | love | fair Helena | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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